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The First Guy To Ever Wear A Costume

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The setup

A man in cat ears tries to sell his skeptical friend on a brand-new idea: dressing up as something you're not, one night a year, for candy.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Wearing cat ears and an eye mask, a man explains to a doubtful financial planner that he has invented the costume: a way to pretend to be someone else for a little while. When the planner keeps asking what the point is, the inventor improvises an entire holiday around it, with people going door to door in disguise for candy, a made-up excuse about scaring ghosts and, for grown-ups, outfits with a suggestive twist. He switches into a homemade costume of a pile of poop and urges his friend to choose anything he isn't already, but the planner can't come up with anything more daring than an accountant. Their argument is interrupted by a mustached police officer who arrests them both, prompting the planner to blurt out an alarming question before the officer admits his uniform is only a costume as well.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

I get to pretend to be a cat. I'm calling it a costume.

We can make something up about scaring ghosts or something.

Do you want to be a candy giver, a candy taker, or literally anything else as long as it kind of hints at intercourse?

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Ryan George plays all three parts. The video was released on Halloween 2019, and the Ryan George fan wiki lists it as the twelfth entry in the first season of The First Guy series.

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